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JurisTalk – “What if the state no longer sexed us?: The political implications of abandoning a regime of assigned sex/gender status”

September 6, 2019 at 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Location:3400 Canal Building
Cost:Free

Speaker:

Dr. Davina Cooper

Research Professor, King’s College, London, UK

This paper critically explores the value, challenges, risks and potential of abandoning legal gender status.

It emerges at the mid-point of a three year UK Research Council funded project, entitled “The Future of Legal Gender”

(see: “The Future of Legal Gender”)

Paper presentation, followed by responses from:

  • Ann Cvetkovich, Director, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies

  • Stacy Douglas, Law & Legal Studies

  • Lara Karaian, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Juris Talks Poster – Dr. Davina Cooper